A study on factors inducing and controlling postharvest blackheart in pineapples

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Title: A study on factors inducing and controlling postharvest blackheart in pineapples
Author/Creator: Tang, Y L | Zhou, Yuchan | Tan, X J
Description: Blackheart (BH) is one of the physiological disorders causing substantial losses during pineapple storage. In our experiment, BH symptoms appeared in summer fruits after 1 or 2 weeks of storage at 5, 7 and 12°C. Their incidence and severity increased with storage duration and were more serious at 12°C than at 5 or 7°C. Treatment with 150 or 300 ppm GA3 could induce BH in summer fruits when stored at ambient temperature for 1 or 2 weeks after treatment, while control fruits had no BH symptoms when held at ambient for 4 weeks. Therefore, as low temperature, GA3 is also one of the important inducing factors of pineapple BH. In winter, the incidence of BH on pineapples harvested from November to March was about 30-40% or more, incidence and severity being greater when treated with GA3 than in control fruits, and the development of BH was accelerated by storage at 12°C and inhibited by 7°C. Fungicides such as Imazalil, TBZ, Benlate and so on failed to control pineapple BH. Heating at 40°C for 24 hours before storage could reduce the incidence and delay the occurrence of BH. Waxing with SF-wax significantly reduced the severity of BH in fruits stored at 12°C, and the effect of 1/4 dilution of SF-wax was the best in all treatments with wax.
Relation: II International Pineapple Symposium, Trois-Ilets, Martinique 20-24 February 1995
Relation: Acta Horticulturae / P. Martin-Prével, R. Hugon (eds): Vol. 425, pp.595-603
Relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1997.425.65
Year: 1997
Publisher: International Society for Horticultural Science
Subject: FoR 0706 (Horticultural Production) | FoR 0607 (Plant Biology)

Resource Type: Journal Article
Identifier: ISSN: 0567-7572
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